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Silence : lectures & writings / John Cage

By: Cage, John [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Marion Boyars, [2006]Description: xii, 276 pages : 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714510432 (paperback).Subject(s): Cage, John | Music -- History and criticism | Composition (Music)DDC classification: 780.8
Contents:
The future of music: credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: doctrine -- Composition as process. I: Changes ; II: Indeterminacy ; III: Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varese -- Four statements on the dance. Goal: new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day... ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance -- On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.

The future of music: credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: doctrine -- Composition as process. I: Changes ; II: Indeterminacy ; III: Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varese -- Four statements on the dance. Goal: new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day... ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance -- On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.

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Composer John Milton Cage, Jr., is best known for his avant-garde music, including pieces such as Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) in which 12 radios are turned on intermittently. His 1943 premiere concert of percussion buzzers, pottery and scrap metal, all chosen for their potential sound.

Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 and studied music privately, becoming a teacher at the Chicago School of Design in 1941. Between 1944 and 1966, he was musical director at Merce Cunningham and Dance Co., and in 1949 he won a Guggenheim fellowship.

Cage wrote Virgil Thompson: His Life and Music (1959). His essays and lectures on music were collected into several books, including Silence: Selected Lectures and Writings (1961) and A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (1967).

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